Suburban Homestead Family Academy

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09/17/2023

Farmer’s Market days to sell all our crafts we made as a group 🧡

09/13/2023

Getting ready for the farmer’s market! So excited!

Some items we will be selling:

-Sourdough Starter
-Dry Soup Mixes in a Jar
-Homemade Spiced Rum Vanilla
-Pressed Flower Notecards
-Herbalist Calendula Balm
-Soaps

Come and see us! This Saturday 5-8PM!

09/07/2023

Come join us and our 2022-2023 students selling our crafts that we made! We are so excited to see you there!

FINALLY!!!!!!! IT SHOULD BE COOL ENOUGH FOR A PANTEGO FARMER'S MARKET! SEE YOU ALL THERE 9/16!!!

03/12/2023

Planning your spring garden? Think like a pollinator with these tips from the US Forest Service:

- Go Native. Pollinators are “best” adapted to local, native plants, which often need less water than ornamentals
- Bee Bountiful. Plant big patches of each plant species (better foraging efficiency.)
- Bee Sunny. Provide areas with sunny, bare soil that’s dry and well-drained, preferably with south-facing slopes.
- Bee Showy. Flowers should bloom in your garden throughout the growing season. Plant willow, currant, and Oregon grape for spring and aster, rabbit
brush and goldenrod for fall flowers.
- Bee Patient. It takes time for native plants to grow and for pollinators to find
your garden, especially if you live far from wild lands.

More info including some plant suggestions: https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/pollinators/gardening.shtml

03/09/2023

I am SO excited for tomorrow’s class!

Not only will both classes be all together for the first time, but we will all be planting our spring garden beds (including mushroom spawn for next class- which is all about mushrooms! 🍄) and learning a herbal medicinal salve recipe together.

These Calendula flowers have been infusing in avocado oil for 8 weeks now. That combined with organic beeswax and lavender oil, it creates a magic skin fix that smells like fragrant honeysuckle.
It can help eczema, rashes and bug bites. It’s extremely moisturizing and again, THAT SMELL 🤤

03/01/2023

Purple Dead Nettle is EVERYWHERE here in Arlington lately! Have you tried it?